Darrin White 🌻🇨🇦🇺🇦🌻🏳️🌈
@darrinwhite.bsky.social
Dad, ally, fiercely anti-fascist, Access and Privacy Investigator, printmaker, community volunteer, settler in Kjipuktuk/Halifax. My posts are my own & do not represent the Government of Nova Scotia. Living with Granulomatosis with polyangiitis, 🇨🇦 #Halisky
I don’t know what Canada should do about Canada Post but this ain’t working. If it’s a flyer for La-Z-boy, by god it gets delivered. But a paid package with a delivery window of 11:30-3:30 today as provided by the app? According to an agent that’s just an estimate for both the time *AND THE DATE*!
November 27, 2025 at 12:24 AM
I don’t know what Canada should do about Canada Post but this ain’t working. If it’s a flyer for La-Z-boy, by god it gets delivered. But a paid package with a delivery window of 11:30-3:30 today as provided by the app? According to an agent that’s just an estimate for both the time *AND THE DATE*!
I have to share this wrenching comic by artist Savannah Tries based on her interview with a 60s scoop survivor (who wished to remain anonymous). This dismal chapter in Canadian history haunts the survivors and this country to this day.
Seeking Stones: Grief in Foster Care — Grief Matters
This month’s cartoon is by guest artist, Savannah Tries. Savannah spoke with a person, who wishes to remain anonymous, about their experiences of grief and healing after being raised in foster care as...
griefmatters.ca
November 26, 2025 at 7:43 PM
I have to share this wrenching comic by artist Savannah Tries based on her interview with a 60s scoop survivor (who wished to remain anonymous). This dismal chapter in Canadian history haunts the survivors and this country to this day.
Can a single comic strip capture love? Yes. Yes it can. xkcd.com/3172/
Fifteen Years
xkcd.com
November 25, 2025 at 3:10 AM
Can a single comic strip capture love? Yes. Yes it can. xkcd.com/3172/
This is exactly the way everyone should be thinking. LLMs are thieving, lying, hallucinating, manipulation machines.
I don't understand how anyone can watch how blatantly Grok is manipulated to answer the way ownership desires it to and then act like the other LLM chatbots couldn't possibly be similarly but less obviously compromised to produce responses in whatever way corporate interests and priorities dictate.
November 23, 2025 at 11:57 PM
This is exactly the way everyone should be thinking. LLMs are thieving, lying, hallucinating, manipulation machines.
Holy Dinah. The whole damn thing is quotable. And beautiful. And we need more humans in this sort of creative space. “But your private, cloistered reveries turn out to be one of the best ways to create that shared, inclusive space that can shelter other people.”
So I was invited to accept an award for "imagination in service to society." This forced me to think a bit about what "imagination," "service" and "society" mean to me.
Here's the speech I delivered last night:
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Here's the speech I delivered last night:
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"The Enemy of Imagination": Here's the Speech I Gave Last Night
I had such an incredible day yesterday, y’all. First I was at the Trans Day of Literature at George Mason University, talking with incredible authors...
buttondown.com
November 23, 2025 at 10:46 PM
Holy Dinah. The whole damn thing is quotable. And beautiful. And we need more humans in this sort of creative space. “But your private, cloistered reveries turn out to be one of the best ways to create that shared, inclusive space that can shelter other people.”
I haven’t built a plastic model in decades. I have to say I’m enjoying the heck out of building a model Honda RA272 (a Formula 1 race winning car from 1965). The engine is nearly complete. Paint and cement have come a long way since 197x.
November 23, 2025 at 3:25 PM
I haven’t built a plastic model in decades. I have to say I’m enjoying the heck out of building a model Honda RA272 (a Formula 1 race winning car from 1965). The engine is nearly complete. Paint and cement have come a long way since 197x.
Just caught up on #LasVegasGP. There’s 2 hours of my life I’ll never get back. What an uninspired race/circuit.
November 23, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Just caught up on #LasVegasGP. There’s 2 hours of my life I’ll never get back. What an uninspired race/circuit.
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Today, Ukrainians honor the memory of those who perished during the Holodomor — the genocide orchestrated by the USSR in 1932–1933 to crush resistance to the communist regime and to erase Ukrainians as an independent nation.
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November 22, 2025 at 11:11 AM
Today, Ukrainians honor the memory of those who perished during the Holodomor — the genocide orchestrated by the USSR in 1932–1933 to crush resistance to the communist regime and to erase Ukrainians as an independent nation.
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You should take the time to turn these off if you still use or have a gmail account.
Google has started automatically opting you in to let it read your stuff to train AI. You need to turn this off in SEVERAL places in your settings (not just for Gmail), if you want to maintain privacy and confidentiality.
www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/20...
www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/20...
Gmail can read your emails and attachments to train its AI, unless you opt out
A new Gmail update may allow Google to use your private messages and attachments for AI training. Here's how to turn it off.
www.malwarebytes.com
November 22, 2025 at 12:25 AM
You should take the time to turn these off if you still use or have a gmail account.
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Please enjoy my cartoon in today's Toronto Star
November 13, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Please enjoy my cartoon in today's Toronto Star
It’s World Kindness Day! There’s a lot of heavy darkness out there. Take some time and brighten your community with an act of kindness, if only for today.
November 13, 2025 at 1:02 PM
It’s World Kindness Day! There’s a lot of heavy darkness out there. Take some time and brighten your community with an act of kindness, if only for today.
How to spot performative action: Writer leaves Twitter/X due to Nazi problem. Comes to BlueSky to promote their writing on Substack, which has a Nazi problem, which they refuse to leave.
November 8, 2025 at 2:36 PM
How to spot performative action: Writer leaves Twitter/X due to Nazi problem. Comes to BlueSky to promote their writing on Substack, which has a Nazi problem, which they refuse to leave.
November 7, 2025 at 12:13 PM
There are two of these stories in circulation. This one about Meta/Facebook (which includes Instagram & Threads) and the other about Twitter/X. Everyone who stays on these platforms is making a conscious choice to support these platforms and people. If you don't support this, leave.
Meta internally projected it would earn about $16 billion from running advertising for scams and banned goods, internal company documents show.
“It is easier to advertise scams on Meta platforms than Google" docs show.
@jeffhorwitz.bsky.social with the goods.
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
“It is easier to advertise scams on Meta platforms than Google" docs show.
@jeffhorwitz.bsky.social with the goods.
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
Meta is earning a fortune on a deluge of fraudulent ads, documents show
Meta projected 10% of its 2024 revenue would come from ads for scams and banned goods, and it internally estimates that its platforms show users 15 billion scam ads a day, company documents show.
www.reuters.com
November 6, 2025 at 2:30 PM
There are two of these stories in circulation. This one about Meta/Facebook (which includes Instagram & Threads) and the other about Twitter/X. Everyone who stays on these platforms is making a conscious choice to support these platforms and people. If you don't support this, leave.
There are two of these stories in circulation. This one about Twitter/X and the other about Meta/Facebook (which includes Instagram & Threads). Everyone who stays on these platforms is making a conscious choice to support these platforms and people. If you don't support this, leave.
Vital piece of investigative reporting from Sky. They've uncovered the X algorithm which feeds users extremist right wing material from the moment they join the site. It is a far-right radicalisation engine, by design.
news.sky.com/story/the-x-...
news.sky.com/story/the-x-...
Elon Musk is boosting the British right - and this shows how
Elon Musk is boosting the British right - and this shows how
news.sky.com
November 6, 2025 at 2:29 PM
There are two of these stories in circulation. This one about Twitter/X and the other about Meta/Facebook (which includes Instagram & Threads). Everyone who stays on these platforms is making a conscious choice to support these platforms and people. If you don't support this, leave.
Take note. This is the beginning of the end, and I, for one, cannot wait for this whole big pile of AI slop and garbage to collapse with the density of a dying star. When Burry shorts a stock, pay attention. www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Global stock markets fall sharply over AI bubble fears
Drop in US, Asia and Europe follows warning from bank bosses that market correction could lie ahead
www.theguardian.com
November 5, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Take note. This is the beginning of the end, and I, for one, cannot wait for this whole big pile of AI slop and garbage to collapse with the density of a dying star. When Burry shorts a stock, pay attention. www.theguardian.com/business/202...
2025 Blue Jays are my champions regardless of the outcome.
November 2, 2025 at 4:24 AM
2025 Blue Jays are my champions regardless of the outcome.
It’s not too late to check your storm drains! I checked the one outside my flat only to find it under a 7” thick mat of decomposing leaf litter. Big rains coming to #HRM #Halifax #NovaScotia
October 30, 2025 at 11:31 PM
It’s not too late to check your storm drains! I checked the one outside my flat only to find it under a 7” thick mat of decomposing leaf litter. Big rains coming to #HRM #Halifax #NovaScotia
My life has literally become sleep, work, watch baseball in whatever order I can manage. Work and baseball are scheduled - sleep will have to fit in the margins. Go #BlueJays #WorldSeries
October 28, 2025 at 7:13 PM
My life has literally become sleep, work, watch baseball in whatever order I can manage. Work and baseball are scheduled - sleep will have to fit in the margins. Go #BlueJays #WorldSeries
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I have a very bad feeling about this...
October 27, 2025 at 4:51 PM
I have a very bad feeling about this...
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It's slightly weird by also refreshing that I check every day to see if @chuckwendig.bsky.social (a favourite author) has reviewed my favourite apple! (He hasn't yet; some similar apples, even some related apples, but not my fav). In the meantime, you can find his reviews over on his feed.
Hello, the daily apple review WHICH YOU SURELY CRAVE THE WAY ONE CRAVES THE LOVE OF A CHERISHED FRIEND OR A LONG LOST PARENT is now up a the blog. Today: the nuclear Yoda orb known as MUTSU.
Apple Review #22: Mutsu
Expectations are poisonous. I believe that. I think our experiences can be colored by our expectations that precede that experience. I don’t think we can help it, necessarily — a lot of…
terribleminds.com
October 22, 2025 at 1:16 PM
It's slightly weird by also refreshing that I check every day to see if @chuckwendig.bsky.social (a favourite author) has reviewed my favourite apple! (He hasn't yet; some similar apples, even some related apples, but not my fav). In the meantime, you can find his reviews over on his feed.
The TLDR on this is that it's not. "...colchicine did not improve functional capacity, respiratory function, or inflammatory markers."
Effectiveness of Colchicine for the Treatment of Long COVID jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
Effectiveness of Colchicine for the Treatment of Long COVID
This randomized clinical trial evaluates the superiority of colchicine over placebo among adults with long COVID in improving functional outcome at 52 weeks from baseline.
jamanetwork.com
October 21, 2025 at 3:40 PM
The TLDR on this is that it's not. "...colchicine did not improve functional capacity, respiratory function, or inflammatory markers."
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Proposed parade route if Blue Jays win
October 21, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Proposed parade route if Blue Jays win
I’m a child of the 70s. This hits home. Every third kid in ‘79 was dressed as a KISS member for Halloween. It was awesome.
The co-founding member of the band was known as the Spaceman and had a hit single of his own in "New York Groove." n.pr/3KZjLrz
Ace Frehley, lead guitarist in Kiss, dies at 74
The co-founding member of the band was known as the Spaceman and had a hit single of his own in "New York Groove."
n.pr
October 17, 2025 at 2:08 AM
I’m a child of the 70s. This hits home. Every third kid in ‘79 was dressed as a KISS member for Halloween. It was awesome.